It is particularly aimed at helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are far more likely to die in an accident than their more affluent peers.

Recommendations

The three pieces of guidance produce a number of recommendations on how to prevent unintentional injury to children. An important one for those working in child accident prevention is that all local areas should have a child and young person injury prevention co-ordinator.

Are you an injury prevention co-ordinator? Email info@makingthelink.net to tell us about your injury prevention work.

Tools for councillors

NICE has also produced two resources to help councillors implement the guidance.

'Key facts for local councillors' and 'Ten questions to ask if you are scrutinising local action on preventing unintentional injuries in u15s' are designed to help councillors make the case for investment in injury prevention and owrk with scrutiny committees.

These two resources along with the full NICE guidance for councillors are published on the NICE website at the links below.